Union Budget 2018: Key Highlights at a Glance

India is the world’s fastest growing economy, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as he announced the Budget 2018 for the fiscal year 2018-19. Lauding the efforts of GST and demonetisation, he said that GST had ensured tax simplicity while demonetisation had paved the way for a digital economy.

Here are the Union Budget 2018 highlights:

Arun Jaitley said that when the Narendra Modi government took over, India was considered to be one of the fragile five economies of the world. My government reversed the trend, he said.